Christmas dinner

[andym]

Tis the season to eat and drink far too much, watch the kids faces light up when they see all their presents, get all the famil..... sod that.

I've spoken to a few people over the last couple of days and they almost got offended by the fact I wasn't having a roast dinner with all the trimmings.... one definitely went quite high pitched in his protest that I can't have spaghetti bolognese

To tonight I had a big plate of homemade chicken curry.

So did anyone else have an alternative Christmas dinner?

[yampug]

Huge fry up for lunch and fish and chips for dinner.

[331X2]

It was our kids first Christmas so we skipped trawling around eveyones house and they came to us for tea. We made pulled pork, roast beef in red wine and mustard, prawn salad wraps, brie and spinach wraps and assorted other finger food/buffet food.

Fuck having a dry, shitty meat which is only desirable due to season/tradition, a full roast is for any time of year but with a decent slab of pork/lamb/beef.

Dunno what I'm getting at but I'm in full agreement with your reasoning

[Irn-Bru]

Only thing I ate was the turkey and pigs in blankets, not interested in owt else #gainz #protein I would just get pizza or party type food if it was up to me, roast dinners are too heavy when you're likely to be eating sweets all day.
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[mistergixer]

I had cold, grey, ashes. Same as last year. Same as every night.
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[Rogerborg]

2 x pizza, 1 x beef madras, 1 x bagels and smoked salmon.

And after I'd had mine, I made something or other for the family as well.
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[Ste]

Turkey is boring. You need various other animals stuff inside the turkey. Endangered animals would taste best but no where seems to sell them.

Turkey stuffed with Rhino, Tiger, Gorilla, Elephant and Great White Shark. Actually no, turkey should be upgraded to Polar Bear.

[Flip]

Technically still Christmas dinner.

We had Turkey butties, dipped into a pan of gravy and roasties and veg mashed together and fried in a frying pan, eaten in a layby next to a lake the hell away from everybody.

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[Ed Case]

I had turkey plus all the usual Xmas stuff..............still bloated, farting like a seaside donkey and to top it off now I've got some 'roid rage'.

[oldpink]

one day I enjoy cooking
in the morning I made chicken stock to use later for chicken noodle soup
next made trifle for me and a cheese cake for the mrs & kids

for main I cooked a 4kg gammon joint, a 2.5kg 3 bird roast as well as the chicken breasts from earlier
veg was goose fat roasties, mash potatoes, sprouts, carrots, runner beans and pea's
and home made stuffing with apple

now very stuffed and time for a few beers and a movie
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I did myself a roast (wifey is oop north today) but not turkey. Damn that stuff is rank. I'm not much of a fan of chicken so why anyone would want to eat it's tougher, drier cousin is beyond me.
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[Teflon-Mike]

Quite a simple Roast Duck, with roast-beef and roast-pork on the side; roast potatoes, cabbage; caramelised carrots & parsnips; & for Snowie, as she's the only one who will eat them, and insisted, three brussel sprouts.

First Christmas Day in ten years with my Daughter; first Christmas dinner in all that time, actually on Christmas day; first Christmas dinner without so much as even a token Turkey-Nugget! And first Christmas in a decade that has actually felt like Christmas.
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[GetawayDj]

I haven't even had anything to eat yet due to it being a really shitty day , just put myself some pork & apple sausages with some smoked bacon on, Merry Christmas eh
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[Tungtvann]

I love roast dinners, so would be happy with any meat. I prefer chicken actually, but was at my parents' today, so turkey it was. My step mother makes the worst roast potatoes known to mankind, so I just ate turkey and pigs in blankets.

I would offer to make the roast potatoes, but I think all the flavour would kill them.

[Shaft]

Breakfast was Gypsy Toast, topped with lightly fried Italian salami.

Nice lump of rib eye for dinner, rubbed with garlic and marinated in oil, red wine and black pepper, flash fried on a smoking hot iron griddle and served with a shallot, mushroom, garlic and red wine sauce, plus chips and coleslaw.

Dessert was a couple of slices of ginger cake, steeped in Rumtopft (various fruits preserved in over proof rum and sugar, fermented for the last six months) and a couple of large dollops of Cornish cream vanilla ice cream.

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[BigDan1190]

For various reasons, I sort of boycott the traditional christmas.

Fry up for breakfast, went out for a shisha and a milkshake around midday (we have a place called Rusholme in Manchester, a.k.a the curry mile - all ethnic places, so open christmas day - last year we went out for a curry on Xmas day).

Then late afternoon the girlfriend came round, we ordered pizza for tea.

All the lashings of a really nice standard Sunday, but with presents. None of the family bullshit or obligation, no arguments... just a chilled day

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[doggone]

The only part of it I really like is the roast spuds.
You need to boil them until almost breaking up then cook in the oven about an hour so the fluffy bits are seriously crispy and caramelised.
You can add some bits of onion among them too.
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[Dave70]

Had some portobello mushroom and nut roast thingy from m&s (bloody lovely it was too), roasties, roasted parsnips and carrots, potato rossettis, peas and a homemade onion and mushroom gravy.

A bottle or red wine and too many old speckled hens too, leaving me feeling a little this morning.

Still, it won't stop me taking the bike out later when the garages open, so I can fill up on fuel.

[The Artist]

Turkey is boring and bland unless you cram loads of other stuff with it but then what is the point.

Goose or Beef is where it's at. Proper flavour.

[Rebel]

Ovens broken so fried some nice steaks . Washed down with a fine 10 year old Bordeaux.
I hadn't planned on company, but car probs mean my kids have been marooned here since saturday,

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